By: Zarmina Ismail Essential Question: Does conflict produce change? Grade: 10th -12th
Week #1: AZSS: S1: C9
PO3:Describe aspects of post WWII American society
Generalization: Every action has consequences Concept: Racism Topic: Civil Rights Movement Strategies/Activities: Written Conversation, Role Play, Essay
Facts:Hate crimes led to death by lynching. Protests brought attention to inequality. Dr. King’s speech impacts the world even today by bringing people together and reducing hatred.
Monday: Students will create a timeline from the years 1955-1965 and list important dates and events that contributed to African Americans gaining equality in America. Tuesday:Students will Read an article on the “Brown vs. Board of Education” Supreme Court case. They will write down notes from the article and jot down their opinions. Then they will be assigned roles to participate in an actual court case similar to this one. Wednesday: The teacher will read Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” aloud to the class. While reading, the students will listen and will complete the literacy strategy Written Conversation with their shoulder partner and then we will discuss as a class. The students are required to turn them into the teacher. Thursday:Students will watch a documentary on Rosa Parks, The Greensboro sit ins, boycotts during the civil rights movement and the million man march on Washington. They will write down twenty facts from the video to discuss in class and summarize the notes with an essay at the end of how the actions of African Americans contributed to desegregation and to them getting equal rights in America. Friday: Assessment on Civil Rights Movement. Assessment will be three essay questions. Each essay must be answered in 4-6 sentences
Reflection: Civil Rights Movement displays that every action has consequences. African Americans fought racism in America. Their actions resulted in the consequences of being taken to jail, getting beaten and even lynching’s. In the end however, the biggest consequences were receiving equal rights, desegregating public facilities and being heard.
Week #2: AZSS: SS1: C8 PO2:Describe the impact of American involvement in WWII.
Generalization: Ideas are shaped and molded from the actions/beliefs of others. Concept: Freedom Topic:Japanese in America during WWII Strategies/Activities: Perception and point of view, research, debate/discussion.
Facts: Japanese military attacked American military base Pearl Harbor. America entered war against Japan and axis powers. Japanese citizens and aliens in U.S. were sent to internment camps to prevent espionage and to protect them from Americans who had strong anti-Japanese attitudes.
Monday: Students will identify perceptions towards Asians widely held by the American public through the analysis of political cartoons from the 1940's and 1990's. (TIME Magazine article titled "How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs" on page 33 of the Dec. 22, 1941 edition) Tuesday:Students research the daily life of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II and write radio documentaries using what they learn. (Library/Comp Lab). Wednesday:continued.. Students research the daily life of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II and write radio documentaries using what they learn (Library/Comp Lab). Thursday: Students will participate in a debate/trial where the U.S. government is being prosecuted by an international tribunal for taking away the rights and freedom of Japanese citizens and placing them in internment camps during WWII in the U.S. Friday: Students will write an essay and answer the question; What would you do in President Roosevelt’s situation in regards to protecting the rights of Japanese citizens but not being viewed as a traitor by the American public? Reflection: Students need to be aware that even as American citizens, people are sometimes deprived of their freedom because of the ideas, beliefs and actions of others.
Week #3: AZSS: SS2: C8 PO6: Examine genocide as a manifestation of extreme nationalism in the 20th century.
Generalization: Be the change you want to see in the world. Concept: Compromise/Resolution Topic: Genocide Strategies/Activities: K-W-L chart, vocabulary definitions, Frayer Model Graphic Organizer, Read aloud.
Facts: Germans committed acts of genocide on Jewish population during WWII. Armenian genocide took place in Turkey.
Monday: Students will fill out a K-W-L chart on genocide acts throughout the world. They will also define “genocide” in their own words using a Frayer Model graphic organizer and discuss their definitions with partner and then with the class. Tuesday: Students will watch a documentary on the Holocaust and it’s survivors who explain what happened in the ghettos and concentration camps. They will take notes and participate in class discussion. Wednesday: Students will listen to the teacher read aloud from the book: Some of Us Survived: the Story of an Armenian Boy and then take notes from power point on Armenian genocide in Turkey and view pictures. Thursday: Students will write an essay explaining why people are so afraid of change or being different that they feel that getting rid of an entire race of people is their resolution. Is compromising someone’s life ever the resolution to a problem? Is that the change we want to see in the world? Friday: Students will choose one act of genocide that took place anywhere in the world and write a five page research paper on it accompanied by a visual (collage, power point, diagram, etc.). Reflection: Compromising the lives of an entire race of people by killing them is never the resolution to any problem. Whether it was Hilter with the Jewish population or Turkey with the Armenian population, exterminating people is NOT the change we want to neither see or be in the world.
Essential Question: Does conflict produce change?
Grade: 10th -12th
Week #1: AZSS: S1: C9
PO3: Describe aspects of post WWII American societyGeneralization: Every action has consequences
Concept: Racism
Topic: Civil Rights Movement
Strategies/Activities: Written Conversation, Role Play, Essay
Facts: Hate crimes led to death by lynching. Protests brought attention to inequality. Dr. King’s speech impacts the world even today by bringing people together and reducing hatred.
Monday: Students will create a timeline from the years 1955-1965 and list important dates and events that contributed to African Americans gaining equality in America.
Tuesday: Students will Read an article on the “Brown vs. Board of Education” Supreme Court case. They will write down notes from the article and jot down their opinions. Then they will be assigned roles to participate in an actual court case similar to this one.
Wednesday: The teacher will read Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” aloud to the class. While reading, the students will listen and will complete the literacy strategy Written Conversation with their shoulder partner and then we will discuss as a class. The students are required to turn them into the teacher.
Thursday: Students will watch a documentary on Rosa Parks, The Greensboro sit ins, boycotts during the civil rights movement and the million man march on Washington. They will write down twenty facts from the video to discuss in class and summarize the notes with an essay at the end of how the actions of African Americans contributed to desegregation and to them getting equal rights in America.
Friday: Assessment on Civil Rights Movement. Assessment will be three essay questions. Each essay must be answered in 4-6 sentences
Reflection: Civil Rights Movement displays that every action has consequences. African Americans fought racism in America. Their actions resulted in the consequences of being taken to jail, getting beaten and even lynching’s. In the end however, the biggest consequences were receiving equal rights, desegregating public facilities and being heard.
Week #2: AZSS: SS1: C8
PO2: Describe the impact of American involvement in WWII.
Generalization: Ideas are shaped and molded from the actions/beliefs of others.
Concept: Freedom
Topic: Japanese in America during WWII
Strategies/Activities: Perception and point of view, research, debate/discussion.
Facts: Japanese military attacked American military base Pearl Harbor. America entered war against Japan and axis powers. Japanese citizens and aliens in U.S. were sent to internment camps to prevent espionage and to protect them from Americans who had strong anti-Japanese attitudes.
Monday: Students will identify perceptions towards Asians widely held by the American public through the analysis of political cartoons from the 1940's and 1990's. (TIME Magazine article titled "How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs" on page 33 of the Dec. 22, 1941 edition)
Tuesday: Students research the daily life of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II and write radio documentaries using what they learn. (Library/Comp Lab).
Wednesday: continued.. Students research the daily life of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II and write radio documentaries using what they learn (Library/Comp Lab).
Thursday: Students will participate in a debate/trial where the U.S. government is being prosecuted by an international tribunal for taking away the rights and freedom of Japanese citizens and placing them in internment camps during WWII in the U.S.
Friday: Students will write an essay and answer the question; What would you do in President Roosevelt’s situation in regards to protecting the rights of Japanese citizens but not being viewed as a traitor by the American public?
Reflection: Students need to be aware that even as American citizens, people are sometimes deprived of their freedom because of the ideas, beliefs and actions of others.
Week #3: AZSS: SS2: C8
PO6: Examine genocide as a manifestation of extreme nationalism in the 20th century.
Generalization: Be the change you want to see in the world.
Concept: Compromise/Resolution
Topic: Genocide
Strategies/Activities: K-W-L chart, vocabulary definitions, Frayer Model Graphic Organizer, Read aloud.
Facts: Germans committed acts of genocide on Jewish population during WWII. Armenian genocide took place in Turkey.
Monday: Students will fill out a K-W-L chart on genocide acts throughout the world. They will also define “genocide” in their own words using a Frayer Model graphic organizer and discuss their definitions with partner and then with the class.
Tuesday: Students will watch a documentary on the Holocaust and it’s survivors who explain what happened in the ghettos and concentration camps. They will take notes and participate in class discussion.
Wednesday: Students will listen to the teacher read aloud from the book: Some of Us Survived: the Story of an Armenian Boy and then take notes from power point on Armenian genocide in Turkey and view pictures.
Thursday: Students will write an essay explaining why people are so afraid of change or being different that they feel that getting rid of an entire race of people is their resolution. Is compromising someone’s life ever the resolution to a problem? Is that the change we want to see in the world?
Friday: Students will choose one act of genocide that took place anywhere in the world and write a five page research paper on it accompanied by a visual (collage, power point, diagram, etc.).
Reflection: Compromising the lives of an entire race of people by killing them is never the resolution to any problem. Whether it was Hilter with the Jewish population or Turkey with the Armenian population, exterminating people is NOT the change we want to neither see or be in the world.